- Mass Market Paperback: 448 pages
- Publisher: Ballantine Books; Reprint edition (Dec 2002)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0345448995
- ISBN-13: 978-0345448996
- Product Dimensions: 10.6 x 3.1 x 17.4 cm
- Average Customer Review: 2.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (22 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 2,419,567 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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‘The Eddingses are a definite gain to aficionados of crime writing … well written, convincing fiction. What the Eddingses do best is to successfully fuse a serial killer story with subtle supernatural overtones.’ SFX
‘This remarkable book by the Eddingses demonstrates that there is plenty of life in the concept [serial killer thriller] yet. Handled with imagination and panache … this is a thriller rich in elements of the bizarre that will delight.’ Good Book Guide
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'The Eddingses are a definite gain to aficionados of crime writing ! well written, convincing fiction. What the Eddingses do best is to successfully fuse a serial killer story with subtle supernatural overtones.' SFX 'This remarkable book by the Eddingses demonstrates that there is plenty of life in the concept [serial killer thriller] yet. Handled with imagination and panache ! this is a thriller rich in elements of the bizarre that will delight.' Good Book Guide
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"What's happening here?" Les Greenleaf demanded, after Renata had been sedated into a peaceful slumber and we'd returned to Fallon's office. Read the first page
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10 of 10 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
Eddings should really stick to fantasy writing, as this was really painful. How many times can he get away with the lead character putting up shelves? Reading through the book it appears that the same sentence is used again and again, it just seems really repetitive. This coupled with the fact that you have solved the "mystery" after the first few chapters means this is one to avoid.
11 of 12 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
I have enjoyed the Eddings books since the Belgariad,and eagerly look forward to their new ones. i usually pre-order books whose author i enjoy but this one was a mistake. While in fantasy a certain amount of characters behaving in a naive way usually adds to the book, in a murder story it just does not work. Very poor book, could not recommend to anyone, and i will be more careful what I pre-order in the future.
8 of 9 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
I have read and enjoyed the Eddings's fantasy books and this is very different in a lot of ways. At first the book drew me in, the authors do have an engaging style that is easy to connect with. However there were a few things that irked me. Firstly, the Eddings clichés: If I read one more Eddings character say "be nice" as a joking reprimand I think I shall scream! By the end of the book, every one of the little clichés they use threw me right out of connection with the story.
Secondly the male/female dynamic is, as always in their books, simplistic. The women of the household do all the cooking and even wait on the men, serving the narrator up coffee whenever he walks in the room. The men do all the handy work like laying floors and painting. I like cooking, I admit, but I also like doing things like building shelves and I do have problems with the typical stereotypes that the authors use - they could get away with it in their fantasy novels in a medieval-type society - but this is supposed to be modern day and it just doesn't ring true.
My final gripe is to do with the supernatural elements shoehorned into the novel's resolution. They really felt out of place. While I like reading and writing speculative fiction, this book doesn't really belong in that genre and it felt very much that they introduced those elements merely to pull themselves into familiar ground. It's unfortunate because the book would have been better without.
While many of the other aspects of the book (the handling of the doctor/patient relationship and the behaviour of the police officers as two examples) may be unrealistic, they don't mar the story. This could have been an interesting exploration into the mind and relationships of a very disturbed individual. The potential was there. However in the end I felt let down, cheated out of the resolution that the book deserved. The Eddings, sad to say, just can't do emotional depth, or at least they can't do it well.
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Nothing worth reading here
It appears that the Edding's have written a book with close to zero research on topics they know nothing about. Curare available in pharmacies to treat epilepsy??? Read more
Published 20 months ago by Ian Roberts
Regina's Song
After reading David Eddings other books, i was expecting this to be a somewhat of a let down. Much to my surprize i found this book to as gripping and interesting as the others. Read more
Published on 18 Aug 2007 by Daniel Nelder
alright
If you were to read this book with no idea about the author and no expectations, then you will probably describe it as an "alright" story. Read more
Published on 6 Feb 2007 by Melanie Bryant
Don't waste your money. I mean, really. I'm serious.
I love David and Leigh Eddings' work. I have been reading and rereading the belgariad and malloreon series for 20 years now and practically everything else they've ever written. Read more
Published on 17 Sep 2006 by Intani
Not his best... but maybe worth a read
Being a big fan of Eddings' fantasy novels I thought this would be well worth a read. I read "The Losers" years ago (strange book but very readable) and hoped for something... Read more
Published on 12 Feb 2005 by Craig Chiles
Childish!
SPOILERS! SPOLIERS! SPOLIERS!
If you intend to read this book or just hate it when you get too much info on a book you want to read, then stop reading this review here! Read more
Published on 30 Dec 2004
Regina's Song
I have read all of the Eddings previous books and enjoyed most of them very much indeed. However, the childish humour and lack of story-line in Althius appalled me so much that I... Read more
Published on 30 Jun 2004
This is the worst book I have ever read
I used to be a fan of David Eddings but now I feel cheated. There is no redeeming quality about this book, it is gut-wrenchingly terrible. Read more
Published on 13 May 2004 by "tarama"
Brilliant return to previous style
I greeted Regina's Song as an old friend come home - I thoroughly enjoyed The Losers (not an easy read maybe but a good one). Read more
Published on 16 Feb 2004 by A Howard
Awful
Rarely do I read a book and feel a growing sense of trepidation that a book might actually be as bad as I think it is, and in that respect this book did not disappoint, however, in... Read more
Published on 11 Jan 2004 by Robin
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